Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 37833

Sustainable Farming Incentive

Tabled: 12 March 2025
Answered: 25 March 2025

Question

Edward Morello

Liberal Democrat — West Dorset

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the closure of the Sustainable Farming Incentive on the viability of family farms.

Answer

Daniel Zeichner
50,000 farm businesses are already in agri-environmental schemes. We will open up initial applications for Countryside Stewardship Higher tier and a revised Environmental Land Management capital grants offer later in the Summer. On the 11th of March 2025 ...
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